Taking a bullet for you all and the greater good, I’ve listened to Autumn Statement Reaction interviews by the dozen. So far, 31 mentions of helping (or not) ‘struggling families’ of whom 23 were ‘hard-working’; not sure if that means the others are bone-idle. Anyway, on whichever side of the divide you dangle your legs, inflation and the freeze, or for dividends and capital gains, big reduction in allowances means we’ll all be paying a lot more tax, pretty much more than ever. No change to Inheritance Tax (you heard it here first), and, yes, pensions tinkering to come, with every employee to be allowed to choose their own scheme. Hopefully, the coming consultation will declare that a barkingly expensive idea. Much more discussion of that and other goodies to follow, no doubt.
“Business leaders call for stability after PM’s resignation”
When I heard the Fiscal-Event-Mini-Budget announcements (which were, I thought, just that, and no longer just ‘goals’), I worked out that both I and our business would be quite a bit better off.
